Welcome back everyone for today’s new blog post. For today’s post, I will be showing seven photographs representing each rule of composition.
This photograph I took of our gazebo located in the courtyard of our campus is supposed to be a photograph capturing “leading lines” by the design of the lines of the gazebo. This means this photograph is meant for your eyes to follow naturally.
My second photograph here is a photograph capturing the rule of composition called “making vs. taking” which means making is capturing a moment, and making means the artistic control of the process. So I chose to take a photograph capturing the moment or as we know “taking a photograph of one of my classmates looking towards our teacher while she was speaking to him while trying to put up a book on the shelf.
In my third photograph this photograph is supposed to represent “viewpoint” and basically what “viewpoint” means is it is the way you consider the best position to capture your subject. So, I noticed one of the power lines in my yard had a unique design with the wires spread apart so I took this photograph at an angle to capture the viewpoint of the wires.
My fourth photograph is meant to capture what we call “mergers” which means that something is coming from what you’re trying to shoot. So I did this by trying to take a picture of the pole but I purposely put my thumb close to the camera to make it appear like my thumb was “merging” into the photograph blocking the view of the pole.
Here is my fifth photograph this is just an experimental photograph of my trying a photograph idea I had in my head and I was trying to see if it would appear like the soda can was tiny in my fingers.
My sixth photograph is a photograph supposed to capture the formal balance. And this photograph represents formal balance because the beautiful view of the rich green grass and the trees makes the most straightforward way to compose a visually appealing photo. Which “formal balance” means the most obvious or straightforward way to capture a visually appealing photograph.
Lastly, my seventh photograph is to capture the rule of thirds, and I took this photograph because, if you were to take a grid and look at this photograph of the tree the top right of the grid would capture the tree inside the lines of the grid which captures using the rule of thirds.